DIRECT ACTION filmvisning
Invitation to watch the film "Direct Action"! A tactical and intimate potrait of a collective and community resisting a planned airport construction in Notre-Dame-de-Landes, France, while creating the autonomous territory "La ZAD" (zone à défendre / zone to defend). Between 2012-2018 it was made close to impossible to enter the territory for the French state. In November 2012, some 40,000 people turned up to defend the zone, and thousands of police throwing thousands of grenades could not stop them (more info here: Rear Window – Zone à Défendre (Zone to Defend)). Again in 2018 La ZAD took the victory and the state was forced to drop the construction of the airport. Now La ZAD is a home for many humans and more-than humans, Europes biggest autonomous zone.
But this was only the beginning of the story... La ZAD protest movement lit the spark for defending territories as a civil and environmental right. A new movement using mass direct action as a strategy, arose in France in 2021 (Les Soulèvements de la Terre/Earth Uprisings/SDLT), and it has shown to be effective.
Through a collaborative and radically immersive observational approach, Direct Action documents the everyday of a diverse constellation of activists, squatters, anarchists, communists, farmers and government-labeled “eco-terrorists” – a singular movement where it's still possible to dream of a “tomorrow that sings”.
The screening is followed by a loosely facilitated discussion on the learnings from the film for our movement spaces and organizing. Invite your affinity groups and comrades.
The film screening is free of charge, since the filmmakers find it important to make it accessible to any / all aligned organizations and individuals that want to show the film.
The film is 212 min long, spoken languages French, Arabic, English, with English subtitles.
Snacks, tea and coffee will be provided - drinks can be purchased in the bar.
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Folkets HusStengade 50
2200 København N